About

Daniel Horn is a graphics and networking researcher at Stanford, having spent two years researching virtual world scalability and architecture. He interned with many large graphics companies and am finishing a three year fellowship with AMD/ATI, having collaborated on ray-tracing and shading. In addition to Daniel's research, he is the lead architect of the Sirikata virtual world platform (http://www.sirikata.com). Sirikata's goal is applying our virtual world architecture knowledge in practice. No state-of-the-art open source virtual world systems with corporate-friendly licenses exist, so building this BSD-licensed platform with the Stanford Humanities Lab will enable improved telepresence, communication and interaction for companies, educators, and scientists. Daniel hosted potential collaborators at Stanford's MetaverseU conference where he was chief evangelist for the Sirikata platform, striving to align corporate and academic interests with the Sirikata direction. He is now founding katalabs.com to continue pushing the Sirikata platform so it can grow in usefulness. The Siebel scholarship enables him to further his focus on building strong, open technology, and he is leveraging the Siebel scholar network to increase Sirikata's impact.

Education

Stanford University

Ph.D. , Computer Science

Class of 2010

Awards & Publications